I use procmail to manage my incoming email and mutt to read it. Unfortunately mutt doesn’t handle dates from different timezones very well, so I came up with this procmail recipe using Ruby’s Time#parse method to convert the Date header to the current timezone:
DATE_=`formail -xDate: \
| expand | sed -e ’s/^[ ]*//g’ -e [...]
Top posting is the bane of internet mailing lists, the horrors of which are made clear in this example:
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
Luckily GNU Emacs provides tools to combat top-posting and [...]
Now I have permanently switced to Mutt as my MTA (Mail Transfer
Agent), embedded HTML in emails has started to become a hindrance. So
I devised a simple procmail recipe to pipe all my HTML messages to text-only links2 so all the useless
formatting and images are removed, yet the messages are still readable
(if not more so).
:0:
* ^Content-Type.*text/html
{
[...]
